Lanreotide is a synthetic analogue of somatostatin, a naturally occurring inhibitory hormone which blocks the release of several other hormones, including growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), insulin and glucagon. Lanreotide binds to the same receptors as somatostatin, with higher affinity to peripheral receptors, and has similar activity.

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GHRH is a releasing hormone of growth hormone (GH). It is a 44-amino acid peptide hormone produced in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. GHRH is released from neurosecretory nerve terminals of these arcuate neurons, and is carried by the hypothalamo-hypophyseal portal system to the anterior pituitary gland, where it stimulates growth hormone (GH) secretion by stimulating the growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor. GHRH is released in a pulsatile manner, stimulating similar pulsatile release of GH.

Liraglutide (NN2211) is a long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, binding to the same receptors as does the endogenous metabolic hormone GLP-1 that stimulates insulin secretion.
Marketed under the brand name Victoza, liraglutide is an injectable drug developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

The question that becomes controversial and made a fierce debate over the safety measures enhancing kids and teen’s height under the recommendation of a doctor that growth hormone is approved for use in healthy but unusually short children.

Growth hormone therapy is increasingly being used to treat youths who are not deficient in growth hormone but they have not been able to reach up to the level where they might actually have in terms of growth and this leads to short stature. It has become a complicated concern nowadays. Short stature is not a disease, although it may result from underlying disease and diagnosis might be problematic and treatment decisions make it controversial. They receive expensive injections of recombinant growth hormone. Taking medicines would lead to long-term risks and side-effects.

Hormones are the chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream to tissues and organs and regulate the metabolism and heart rate. Hormone plays a vital role in getting energy from food that body requires on daily basis, e.g. Insulin. They also carry out other body’s functions like growth and sexual development, swing mood in activities such as sleeping, eating, manage stress etc.

Many women have hormonal imbalances and are unaware of it. It may be that you're one of them. A hormone imbalance can cause weight gain and many more serious health complications. Hormone imbalance can occur due to many reasons, which include stress, age, genes, and poor lifestyle habits, resulting in an altered metabolism. This ultimately leads to weight gain.

Calcitonin (salmon) is a 32-amino acid polypeptide hormone that is produced in humans primarily by the parafollicular cells (also known as C-cells) of the thyroid, and in many other animals in the ultimobranchial body. It acts to reduce blood calcium (Ca2+), opposing the effects of parathyroid hormone (PTH). The calcitonin receptor has been cloned and shown to be a member of the seven-transmembrane, G protein-coupled receptor family.